Sitting at a bank of monitors, an operator stares at his control panels. The monitors display dot graphs and a sterile white row of panels bristle with dials, switches and keys that the technician toggles and presses to get a stream of charged nuclear particles running again.
Students who are away from home for the first time often miss their families, friends and pets.The traditional cures for homesickness, of course, are a phone call or a trip home.But Fido can’t talk on the phone.So students who miss their beloved pets can turn to the MSU Small Animal Veterinary Teaching Hospital.The hospital has a program that lets people check out a dog to walk for half an hour during the hospital’s normal business hours, from 8 a.m.-5 p.m, Monday-Friday.Gretchen McDaniel, who has worked as a vet technician for about 18 years, said the free program began gradually, with a few students coming in and asking if there were any dogs they could walk.McDaniel said the clinic can’t allow people’s ill pets to be sent out, but there are about six to 10 dogs used as blood donors that live there.“That’s kind of how it started,” she said.
Allison Coleman may be a senior, but she remembers decorating her dorm room like it was yesterday.“We had everything from Christmas lights to a ‘Little Mermaid’ poster,” the 20-year-old psychology major said.It’s that time again when the dorms open up their lonely, dusty rooms and the local stores get ready to help freshmen make the small space livable, and even attractive.“I lived in Landon my freshman year and I won’t lie, the space was tight, but you have to make the best of it,” Coleman said.
Many times students see them left on campus, long forgotten, tires flat, rust collecting on the bars and seats missing. MSU Parking Services has impounded more than 1,300 bicycles since this summer. And while students are notified by letter if their bike has been impounded, many times bicycles are not retrieved. Many of them are taken to the MSU Surplus Store after no one bothers to retrieve their transportation.
Now that hockey head coach Rick Comley has moved from Marquette to East Lansing, he’s looking at ways to loosen up the rickety offense that plagued the Spartans’ 2-0 loss to Colorado College in the first round of last year’s NCAA Tournament.
After 57 years of being pelted by sleet, rain and Wolverine vandalism, somehow Sparty still manages to stand tall and hold his chin up proudly. At 10-feet-6-inches, the ceramic statue is perhaps MSU’s most-recognized icon, towering over his perch near the Red Cedar River since then-President John A.
“You are here.”The little red “X” on the map details your exact position on campus, yet everything surrounding that “X” looks foreign to you.
Starting college can be scary. It can be tough for any 18-year-old to suddenly leave home and be on their own.
People looking for an early-morning caffeine boost or a sweet treat don’t have to head off campus.Barista Cafe, which opened in February 2001, is in a quaint little spot in the lobby of South Case Hall.
Residents looking for a nearby outdoor adventure have a couple more weeks to consider canoeing on the Red Cedar River. During the summer months, from Memorial Day to Labor Day, MSU Concessions offers a canoeing service for the MSU community. “We offer this service because we feel that some things are just good for the community,” said Bill Kost, operations manager at MSU Concessions.
College students throughout the decades have long searched for ways to express themselves through music and spoken words.
If you’ve always sucked at sports but dreamed of playing for the Tigers, hitting the game-winning home run in extra innings or dunking over Shaquille O’Neal as the point guard for the Pistons, then you might be a video game player. Or maybe you just don’t have any friends, and the combobulation of pixels beaming with light make for a good replacement when the hours drag by. If you don’t play video games, get a friggin’ console already.
The line stretches out the door, guys and girls draped in the latest fashions rhythmically bob their heads to the sound system resonating from within.Anticipation is high as 18-year-olds are about to get a taste of area nightlife.Once again, The Dollar Nightclub, 3411 E.
The roads will be packed with minivans and eager students as the annual fall ritual runs its course this Welcome Weekend and East Lansing is ready. East Lansing Police Capt.
MSU police Chief Jim Dunlap has had two months to get used to being head of MSU’s police department, a move he was restless to begin.Dunlap was sworn in June 24 to officially take over for the retiring Bruce Benson, who spent nine years as Department of Police and Public Safety’s top authority.Benson started his new job as a full-time professor in the School of Criminal Justice on Aug.
They flip, dip, turn and twist on rails, concrete or any surface they can get their hands on.And they do it on four wheels.They are skateboarders - an increasingly popular sport that is taking over the East Lansing and Lansing areas.“I used to be a surfer, but since I’m stuck in Michigan, skateboarding is the next best thing,” MSU-Detroit College of Law junior Rich Decky said.
Ice cream fans got a little bit cooler without having to buy sunglasses or wear a leather jacket. Cold Stone Creamery, an ice cream shop at 200 M.A.C.
If you’re sick of Bell’s 89-cent pizza, maybe it’s time for a more upscale change. East Lansing has many fine-dining restaurants to cater to students’ and residents’ tastes. Evergreen Grill, 327 Abbott Road, offers a menu with selections ranging from fresh fish to pastas to poultry.
The 23-year professional relationship between former athletics director Clarence Underwood and MSU officially ended June 30 as his contract expired.Unlike his predecessors, Underwood, 68, left the department quietly - the same manner in which he achieved success.
Afraid the athletic skills you used to dominate the court in high school aren’t enough to take you to the next level?